The Indonesian Studies Program offered Lemelson Fellowships to support student research in Indonesia through 2014.

From 2009-2014, Lemelson Fellowships, made possible by a generous gift from The Robert Lemelson Foundation, funded UCLA student research in Indonesia.

 Student researchers included the following:

• Gustav Brown, Department of Sociology, "Public Islam and Religious Pluralism in Democratizing Indonesia"
• James Edwards, Department of Ethnomusicology, "Gerilya budaya ('cultural guerillaism'): Experimental Theater and Community Advocacy in Surakarta, Central Java"
• Allison Fritts-Penniman, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Evolution in the Coral Triangle"
• Jennifer Goldstein, Department of Geography, "Boondoggle, or Benefit? The Commodification of Degraded Landscapes in Indonesia in an Age of Climate Change"
• Meghan Hynson, Department of Ethnomusicology, "Performing Religion: Wayang Sapuh Leger and the Puppet Preacher in Balinese Hinduism"
• Abril Iñiguez, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Fish Diversity in the Coral Triangle"
• Rita Rachmawati, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "Symbiotic Algae and Coral Bleaching in Indonesia"
• Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan, Department of History, "United States-Indonesian Relations in Surabaya"
• Terenjit Sevea, Department of History, "Jawi and Romanized Texts in the Study of Nineteenth Century Malay-Indonesian History"
• Jae Hyeok Shin, Department of Political Science, "Voters, Electoral Institutions, and Pork Barrel Politics in Indonesia"
• Sara Simmonds, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "How New Species Evolve on Coral Reefs in Indonesia"
• Annie Tucker, Department of World Arts and Cultures, "Eka Kurniawan's Novel Cantik Itu Luka (Beauty is a Wound)"
• James White, Department of Linguistics, "Nasal Substitution in Indonesian Linguistics